Category: Transgenderism

59 goals to 3: the trans side dominating women’s soccer league

A women’s soccer team that features five transgender players have continued their dominant season following a commanding 12-0 victory over the weekend.

The Flying Bats have won every game in their 2024 campaign with some victories coming by huge margins, the squad have also scored an impressive 59 goals in the Premier League Women’s Division and only conceded three.

The Daily Telegraph has previously spoken to club officials in the North West Sydney League, who say some parents have pulled their daughters out of the games over safety concerns and say the players did not anticipate signing up to play against biological males in the female Sunday comp.

Source: Dailytelegraph.com.au | Subscribe to The Daily Telegraph for exclusive stories

Testicle trouble – by Bernard Lane – Gender Clinic News

A dramatic rise in taxpayer-funded testosterone for females is driven by a prescribing practice of questionable legality, according to University of Queensland emeritus professor of law Patrick Parkinson.

Transgender-identifying girls and women are being prescribed this masculinising hormone supposedly for the male condition “androgen deficiency due to an established testicular disorder.”

This diagnosis enables females who seek “gender-affirming” masculinisation as a transboy or transman to claim publicly funded testosterone under Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). Subsidised testosterone is not available for gender dysphoria.1

“There are huge ethical and legal concerns with doctors claiming that girls and young women have testicles in order to attract a taxpayer subsidy for ‘gender-affirming’ testosterone,” Senator Chandler told GCN earlier this month.

Source: Testicle trouble – by Bernard Lane – Gender Clinic News

Church of England set to issue advice telling teachers to challenge ‘outdated terms’ around biological sex as critics argue new guidance is pushing gender ideology that a person’s sex is ‘assigned’ at birth | Daily Mail Online

Church of England advice for teachers has been criticised for pushing the gender ideology that a person’s sex is ‘assigned’ at birth rather than a biological fact.

Guidance set to be issued to thousands of schools states that a transgender man is someone ‘who was assigned female at birth but identifies and lives as a man’, and a transgender woman ‘was assigned male at birth but identifies and lives as a woman’.

The statements are in the document Flourishing For All, which is backed by Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, and tells teachers to challenge ‘outdated terms’.

About a million children attend 4,630 Anglican schools.

[Ed: Just in case any feminists were still under the misapprehension that the churches can at least be relied upon to accurately distinguish between men and women when it actually counts.]

Source: Church of England set to issue advice telling teachers to challenge ‘outdated terms’ around biological sex as critics argue new guidance is pushing gender ideology that a person’s sex is ‘assigned’ at birth | Daily Mail Online

WoLF Files New Complaint in Landmark Case to Get Men out of California Women’s Prisons — Women’s Liberation Front

WoLF’s amended complaint in the case of Chandler v. CDCR details years of abuse and trauma in California women’s prisons following the implementation of a 2020 law that allows male offenders, including rapists, to “self-identify” into being housed with female prisoners.  The new filing includes detailed evidence of harm caused to women under this law, including violations of the First, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.

This complaint, filed on July 19 2024, also introduces two additional plaintiffs to the case — Channel Johnson and Cathleen Quinn, both of whom were victimized by men transferred under SB 132. They join the four original plaintiffs: Janine Chandler, Krystal Gonzalez, Tomiekia Johnson, and Nadia Romero.

Source: WoLF Files New Complaint in Landmark Case to Get Men out of California Women’s Prisons — Women’s Liberation Front

Parents at odds over child’s trans therapy | The Australian

A parent hoping to block their transgender child from taking cross-sex hormones to become a boy says they accept the child’s gender dysphoria but don’t believe the underlying reasons were properly assessed.
Lawyers for the parent, referred to as Parent B, cited family dysfunction, adverse child experience, and internalised homophobia as other explanations for gender dysphoria.
But the child’s other parent, referred to as Parent A, who supported the prescription of testosterone, told the Federal and Family Court that Parent B was too “fixated on the why”.
The proceedings are governed by strict suppression orders preventing The Australian from printing key details about the family.
Barrister Belle Lane, leading Parent B’s legal team, argued the gender clinic should have “slowed down” the process from first appointment to gender dysphoria diagnosis and had issue with the fact the diagnosis and informed consent assessment took place over just two appointments. The court heard the time between the child coming out and being diagnosed with gender dysphoria was two years and eight months.
Parent B, wants their child to wait the 17 months until they turn 18, in order “to develop his own sexuality and idea of himself before it is impacted irreversibly”, the court heard, due to side-effects such as vaginal atrophy, sexual dysfunction, pelvic floor dysfunction, and infertility.

Source: Parents at odds over child’s trans therapy

Review of suicides and gender dysphoria at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: independent report – GOV.UK

Aim of this review

I have reviewed data provided by NHS England (NHSE) on suicides by young patients of the gender services at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, based on an audit at the trust. The specific aim is to examine evidence for a large rise in suicides claimed by campaigners.

Summary of conclusions

  1. The data do not support the claim that there has been a large rise in suicide in young gender dysphoria patients at the Tavistock.
  2. The way that this issue has been discussed on social media has been insensitive, distressing and dangerous, and goes against guidance on safe reporting of suicide.
  3. The claims that have been placed in the public domain do not meet basic standards for statistical evidence.
  4. There is a need to move away from the perception that puberty-blocking drugs are the main marker of non-judgemental acceptance in this area of health care.
  5. We need to ensure high quality data in which everyone has confidence, as the basis of improved safety for this at risk group of young people.

 

Source: Review of suicides and gender dysphoria at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: independent report – GOV.UK

Increased powers for the Australian eSafety Commissioner will threaten freedom of speech

HRLA client and former Australian Breastfeeding Association counsellor Jasmine Sussex has experienced first-hand the way that government censorship of online speech works in practice.

Jasmine is a passionate and publicly vocal defender of women’s rights and breastfeeding mums. She was subject to censorship after she publicly contended that ‘men cannot breastfeed’ in response to a trans-identifying man’s public declaration to have done so.

Jasmine received a notice from Twitter advising her that her twitter comments would be withheld in Australia as they had “broken the law”. Twitter also advised that they had been contacted by a “government entity or law enforcement agency” claiming her tweets were unlawful.

In addition to being censored, Jasmine is now facing a complaint of vilification under the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Act from the trans-identifying man in question alleging that Jasmine has “incited hatred, contempt and serious ridicule” by publicly criticising this person’s pro-transgender activism on social media.

HRLA is providing Jasmine with pro-bono legal assistance to oppose this complaint in the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal and to defend her right to stand up for the sex-based rights of women.

While the government’s review will examine an expansion of the eSafety Commissioner’s powers, it is important to note that the Commissioner already has substantial powers under the Online Safety Act 2021 to police online speech and to coerce internet platforms to remove content.

Jasmine’s case is a clear example of the way that such powers can be misused by bureaucrats to silence free debate about transgender ideology.

Source: HRLA